This report introduces a shared resource arbitration scheme“DPQ Dynamic Priority Queue”which provides bandwidth guarantees and low worst case latency to each master in an MPSoC. Being a non-trivial candidate for timing analysis, SDRAM has been chosen as a showcase, but the approach is valid for any shared resource arbitration. Due to its significant cost, data rate and physical size advantages,...

Long Term Evolution (LTE) is a cellular technology developed to support diversity of data traffic at potentially high rates. It is foreseen to extend the capacity and improve the performance of current 3G cellular networks. A key mechanism in the LTE traffic handling is the packet scheduler, which is in charge of allocating resources to active flows in both the frequency and time dimension. In ...

Programmes for conserving genetic resources have collected, received and stored hundreds of thousands of accessions of different cultivated species and their wild and weedy relatives. Collection and regeneration protocols must consider the species (i.e., allogamous, partially allogamous, autogamous and dioecious) to ensure that the sample is representative of the population. Previous studies ha...

This paper presents Natjam, a system that supports arbitrary job priorities, hard real-time scheduling, and efficient preemption for Mapreduce clusters that are resource-constrained. Our contributions include: i) smart eviction policies for jobs and for tasks, based on resource usage, task runtime, and job deadlines; and ii) a work-conserving task preemption mechanism. We incorporated Natjam in...

Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) is situated in the Southeast of Bangladesh covering about 10 per cent of the total land. It is the native hoe of 13 tribal communities and these communities have their own traditional knowledge for natural resource managements. This paper provides 8 traditional knowledge namely, folk classification of landform, land use zoning, community reserve for common resource ...

As large-scale sensor networks are being deployed with the objective of collecting quality data to support user queries and decision-making, the role of a scalable query model becomes increasingly critical. An effective query model should scale well with large network deployments and address user queries at specified confidence while maximizing sensor resource conservation. In this paper, we pr...

MEMS technology has improved such that the capabilities of large sensor devices can now be encompassed in devices that are the size of a penny. These resource constraint devices are confronted with the challenges of ensuring accuracy of observations while conserving power resources. This paper analyzes the two modes of collaborative signal processing employed in sensor networks, namely, data fu...